Five most important people in the French Revolution.
Louis XIV
- Weak leader
- Caused France to fall into major Debt
- Called the first Estates General in over 100 years
- Beheaded
- Brilliant Military General.
- Created the Napoleonic Code
- First Consul and later Emperor of France
- Finally Defeated at Waterloo
- Political leader of the Radical Jacobin faction in the national assembly
- Elected head of the committee of public safety and in effect ran the country
- Instituted the reign of terror and caused 40000 people to be executed.
- Beheaded
Marquis de Lafayette
- Liberal leader
- helped Americans in Revolutionary war
- Created national guard to defend the revolution
Jacques-Pierre Brissot
- Political leader of the moderate Girondins
- After declaring a bad war on Austria he was removed from office and beheaded via guillotine.